Justin's Super Sweet WRIT-340 Blog

Journalist If you've ever wanted to make a difference in your community, there aren't many careers where you can like journalism. In this post I will recap my daily responsibilities during my summer internship with KGET-17 News in Bakersfield, California.  A journalist is one who gathers information, whether via text, audio, pictures, video or any other way you could imagine. They then take this information and present it in a news-worthy form and present it to the public, either via a newspaper, television or radio. For my internship specifically, we aired our news on television. A typical day would see me being assigned a story then venturing into the city and finding valuable sources that could offer me accurate information on the story I'm reporting on. I would interview them myself and record the interview, then head back to the station where I make sense of the information given and write a script that I tape myself reading. I then take the video I shot in the field, ...

  Describe where you come from I'm from Bakersfield, California. It's hot and miserable most of the time, and it gets pretty cold in the winter, but it only snows about once every 20 or so years. Tell me where you're going I'm going wherever I can be a sports journalist. That's been my dream for a while now, and anywhere I can do it, that's where I'm going. Tell me how you plan to get there First I'm gonna pay off my loans by getting any job and staying with my parents, then I'm gonna send out applications all around the country until someone picks me up. How are you LIKE your parents Like my Dad, I can be stubborn and a bit of a hard ass, but believe it or not it helps me more often than it hurts me. Like my Mom, I can be a bit too uptight sometimes. How are you UNLIKE your parents Maybe this doesn't exactly answer the question as it was asked, but my parents went kind of easy on me and let me do my own thing. They said they knew I'd figure ...